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TWO creators of Facebook groups celebrating pubs in Blackburn in their heyday took a Covid-secure walk along a famous former pub crawl in the town. Last year, the Lancashire Telegraph reported how Stephen Hughes, licensee and founder of Blackburn and Darwen pubs (Past and Present), and Richie Pull of the Closed Pubs of Blackburn groups visited some of the old pubs. But recently they took a trip down memory lane looking back on the well-known Revidge Run. Stephen said: “Myself and Rich...

REGIONAL David and Sharon Halstead tried to secure a new lease but have been told they will be evicted in March LANDLORDS of a closure-threatened pub are trying to rally as many people as possible to attend a virtual meeting to support them so they can still stay in charge. Tenants Sharon and David Halstead, from the Wilpshire Hotel, in Blackburn, had approached owners Enterprise Inns (EI Group) to change their lease. They said it was necessary to keep the pub viable during difficult tim...

Every where they need to get. but they wont stop, we are assured, until their done. they do have 1 million customers who have been brought back online over the last 24 hours. other people up in jacksonville are still losing their power. arneson. >> tough days ahead. john berman thanks. joining me now cnn correspondent, david halstead. david you got mandatory curfew in miami until 7:00 a.m. in terms of mandatory responders what are they concerned about tonight? >> i think the mayor of jacksonvill...

To, craig fugate. he had us plan for a hurricane called "oh, no." >> just planning for the worst possible. >> planning for the worst, getting the team local, involving the locals with the planning process. the herbert hoover dike. this is not something that has not been gone unplanned for in the past. we have a plan to go into the keys, exactly as administrator long is doing right now. that is getting aircraft carriers and other large ships that can bring resources in. >> well talk to administra...

Just a whisper of the winds to come. many people have left miami beach as hurricane irma approaches. other state, federal, and local people are getting ready to respond when it hits. with me now, someone that has overseen preparations and at times the recovery effort, cnn contributor and former state emergency management director, david halstead. also is josh halstead, mayor of hollywood, florida. first of all, how are things in hollywood? here in miami beach, theres dunes. but in hollywood, the...

Place in florida? >> a lot of them are already staged, but theyre air transportable. so i would imagine what fema is doing is looking at this from the stand point how do they get teams hardest hits and fastest. and two of those teams are based in miami. miami-dade county has one of the task forces. the other one is the city of miami and the surrounding communities. florida has other cities with urban search and rescue teams. so those will be the first on the ground. >> david, youve seen a lot of...

The area. >> barbara starr, appreciate that update. joining me now is craig fugate. and back with us here in miami is david halstead. craig, you heard barbara starr talking about the military assets poised to help. obviously, fema likes to preposition resources as close as they can. but when you have a storm this size that is going to hit as big an area of florida, that has to be extremely difficult. >> yeah. weve done exercises on this. the challenges with the hurricane coming up, you didnt dri...